cereal grass

Noun
  1. Grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat;
    Rice;
    Rye;
    Oats;
    Maize;
    Buckwheat;
    Millet (synset 112162012)
    is a type of: grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
    subtypes:
    • oat - annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
    • barley - cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain
    • rice - annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
    • rice grass, ricegrass - any grass of the genus Oryzopsis
    • bulrush millet, cattail millet, pearl millet, pennisetum americanum, pennisetum glaucum - tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer
    • rye, secale cereale - hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement
    • millet - any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
    • grain - a cereal grass
    • wheat - annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
    • corn, indian corn, maize, zea mays - tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
    • corn - (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
    • wild rice, zizania aquatica - perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food
    same as: cereal

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